LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 13, 2013

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Little things that matter in language design

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Quotes of the week

[Posted November 11, 2009 by corbet]

I, Paul E. McKenney, maintainer of the RCU implementation embodied in the Linux kernel and co-inventor of RCU, being of sound mind and body, notwithstanding the wear and tear inherent in my numerous decades sojourn on this planet, hereby declare that the following usage of work queues constitutes a valid RCU implementation...

-- Acked-by: Paul McKenney style (thanks to Amit Shah)

Hugh's hypothesis: for every variable x initialized by a subfunction, there exists at least one version V of gcc, such that V reports that x may be used uninitialized.

-- Hugh Dickins

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Sound mind and body?

Posted Nov 20, 2009 4:39 UTC (Fri) by jd (guest, #26381) [Link]

I contend it is quite impossible to work on any OS kernel of any size and still be of sound mind due to unceasing complexity overload. I also contend it is quite impossible to develop software of any meaningful complexity without regular tea, coffee or Mountain Dew transfusions when the percentage of blood in the caffeine stream is too great. Surely, m'lord, it is clear from this that no programmer of such obvious and considerable talent could be either sound in mind or body.